Geography is the study of the world, its people and the landscapes they create. Geography is also assosciated with climate and culture In Geography there have been many diasters. But there have been many achievements aswell. Geography has affected peoples life for the better or worse. An example that Geography has affected peoples live for the worse is the diaster that happened in 49A.D when Mount Vesuvius erupted and killed thousands of people and completely wiped Pompeii of the face of the earth
racism” (Keith and Terry, 1). However, racism in New Orleans was an embodiment of all the aforementioned but was very different in the sense that it was shaped and structured by a natural disaster-Hurricane Katrina. Hurricane Katrina, the biggest natural disaster in the United States, struck New Orleans in 2005. Before that period, who were used as slaves were living together with their masters in a housing system known as the ‘Back-yard Pattern’. This particular system of housing had the slave
high as nine meters high and there had been flooding on the previous days before the actual hurricane hit. There were many organizations that acted heroically and efficiently in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. The Coast Guard rescued about thirty-four thousand people in New Orleans alone. The American citizens have high expectations from the American government to react immediately when there is a disaster. They sacrifice their spending power in forms of taxes so that the government may have the